Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), November 2020

by: embrangler
text: Boulder, CO | Remote | US Time Zone<p>At Uplift, we’re on a mission to perfect our work life while learning, building, and enjoying our free time. We&#x27;re looking for a well rounded web designer with mid&#x2F;senior experience level.<p>UX Design and Visual Design dual role:<p>* Bohemian Sketch experience preferred. Photoshop&#x2F;Illustrator works too.<p>* Experience designing web applications.<p>* Mobile design experience a plus but not required.
Bonus:<p>* Freelance experience: delivered projects, managed budget&#x2F;estimate, worked with non-technical clients (most important)<p>* Self-sufficient (can get stuff done with Trello tasks, can make decisions)<p>* Good communicator. Makes deadlines and estimates, raises concerns.<p>* Passionate, self-driven learner waiting for the opportunity to build something new and cool.<p>Begin part-time and go from there.<p>#### To apply:<p>* Location and preferred working hours (US timezone required)<p>* Details about your experience with all of the above skills &amp; technologies.<p>* Current &amp; next 3 months of availability, range is OK. At least 15 hours a week.<p>* Before applying, please read: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers&#x2F;</a><p>Email hn@uplift.ltd

by: promptworks
text: Philadelphia &amp; New York | Local &amp; Remote US We are a development shop that focuses on software craftsmanship. Our calling is to help companies create amazing, intuitive web &amp; mobile applications, APIs, products, and services. Pair programming, continuous integration &amp; delivery, kaizen, and TDD&#x2F;BDD aren&#x27;t just ideas we pay lip service to, but core practices of our day-to-day work. We love polyglots. We use lots of Ruby, Python, Elixir, and JavaScript (mostly TypeScript, React and React-Native).<p>Local only:<p><pre><code>    • Ruby &amp; Rails
    • Python
    • iOS
    • Elixir &amp; Phoenix
</code></pre>
Local &amp; Remote:<p><pre><code>    • React Native
    • Android
    • Azure, especially with Kubernetes &amp; Terraform
    • ML, AI, &amp; Data Science
    • Kafka
</code></pre>
How to get in touch: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.promptworks.com&#x2F;contracting" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.promptworks.com&#x2F;contracting</a>

by: carterhaugh
text: US &#x2F; REMOTE<p>We&#x27;re looking for a contract-to-hire mid-level developer to fill a role on our team specializing in deployments, builds, and build processes. You&#x27;ll be responsible for making sure our deployment pipelines are in good shape, initiating deployments and builds across multiple projects, and making sure they are successful.<p>The ideal candidate would be a generalist who has a strong track record with the devops, automation, and Typescript&#x2F;Nodejs--this role will likely evolve as we continue to streamline our existing processes.
Familiarity with the following is preferred:<p>• CI&#x2F;CD<p>• Docker<p>• Terraform<p>• AWS<p>• Postgres<p>• Redis<p>• Mongo<p>• Typescript<p>• Nodejs<p>• React&#x2F;React Native<p>• iOS<p>• Android<p>• Security Best Practices<p>We are a remote-first software agency and have been working with distributed teams for the past ten years. We use Slack and kanban to communicate. Good-fit candidates will be able to be online during Pacific timezone working hours, can self-motivate, and has experience completing tasks independently in a remote environment.<p>US citizen currently residing in the US is strongly preferred.<p>Send your info to: `contact@${currentPost.username}.com`

by: JonathanStevens
text: Life-saving start-up | Machine Learning&#x2F;Deep Learning&#x2F;Data Scientist | Senior Software Engineer (Python) | Always remote (in EU) | <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;watcherr.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;watcherr.com</a><p>Brief overview video: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ANSosPGSuEU" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;ANSosPGSuEU</a><p>Company: watcherr.com is a healthcare tech start-up that is currently developing an ecosystem around a medically certified smartwatch that can provide a much sought-after solution for the market, providing features like indoor and outdoor location tracking, voice communication and advanced daily activity insights to save lives by proactively trying to prevent cardiac arrests and helping a person in distress more quickly.<p>Location: always remote (located in EU), main timezone is CEST<p>Type: can be either contractor or on payroll for a long term cooperation<p>Looking for:<p>- Medior&#x2F;senior Python (Flask) engineers with cloud experience (preferably AWS)<p>- Machine Learning&#x2F;Deep Learning&#x2F;Data Scientist: set up the data pipeline, train models on medical data to detect diseases and heart rate anomalies, gesture recognition with data from our smartwatch and more.<p>Bonus: worked in a start-up before<p>Why us?<p>- contrarily to most start-ups, customers are already waiting for us to launch the product in the next weeks<p>- the company is founded by people with proven experience in this industry<p>- we have our hardware, firmware and software under one roof, which gives us full control over the ecosystem that we are building<p>- we value everyone who helps to build this story and reward that with stock options. If the company does well, so will you.<p>If you’re interested, send me your resume&#x2F;LinkedIn via the website or to jonathan.stevens@watcherr.com

by: bizops_uplift
text: Boulder, CO | Remote | US Time Zone<p>At Uplift, we’re on a mission to perfect our work life while learning, building, and enjoying our free time. We&#x27;re looking for well rounded software engineers with mid&#x2F;senior experience level for either or both of these roles.<p>1. React Native &#x2F; UI Engineer<p>* React Native (at least 1yr of experience preferred)<p>* TypeScript<p>* GraphQL (React+Apollo especially)<p>* Frontend architecture<p>2. React engineer<p>* React experience (the more the merrier)<p>* TypeScript<p>* GraphQL (React+Apollo especially)<p>* Frontend architecture<p>* Tailwind, Emotion, SCSS<p>Bonus:<p>* Freelance experience: delivered projects, managed budget&#x2F;estimate, worked with non-technical clients (most important)<p>* Heroku or AWS<p>* Node.js<p>* Excellent CSS skills<p>* Native iOS&#x2F;Android<p>* Can think critically, build from rough specs (no designs or detailed specs)<p>One of our core values is continuous learning: within the industry &amp; from each other. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. If you&#x27;re self-sufficient, passionate &amp; a good communicator, apply now!<p>Begin part-time and go from there.<p>#### To apply:<p>* Location and preferred working hours (US timezone required)<p>* Details about your experience with all of the above skills &amp; technologies.<p>* Current &amp; next 3 months of availability, range is OK. At least 15 hours a week.<p>* Before applying, please read: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers&#x2F;</a><p>Email hn@uplift.ltd

by: ayewo
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS | Remote (USA only, Europe only and Anywhere)<p><i>USA Only</i>:<p>Role | Skills | Weekly rate | Duration<p>USA role #A1 | Apex, Salesforce | $1900 - $3000 &#x2F; week | Varies<p>USA role #A2 | Microsoft Azure, AWS | $1900 - $2500 &#x2F; week | Varies<p>USA role #A3 | Java, AWS | $1500 - $2500 &#x2F; week | Varies<p>USA role #A4 | ReactJS, React Native | $1900 - $2500 &#x2F; week | Varies<p>USA role #A5 | Data Science, QA | $1500 - $2500 &#x2F; week | 3-12 Months<p>Note that you may likely have to undergo an identity check and&#x2F;or background check to ensure you are cleared to enter the client’s environment. Depending on the client, this could potentially be a non-negotiable step.<p>Please indicate interest by emailing: &quot;mailto:hn2020@&lt;my-hn-username&gt;.com?subject=Freelancer%20Role%20#X&quot;, thanks!

by: johnomarkid
text: Distributed US&#x2F;EU | Remote Only<p>Looking for a full stack React&#x2F;Node.js developer with a few years of experience. You should be comfortable building features end to end, and communicating clearly. Experience with CDNs, server side rendering of react templates, and postgres are a plus.<p>We are a publishing company running a custom CMS built for speed. As we acquire new sites, we need help scaling our infrastructure and building out new features and templates.
You&#x27;d be joining a small team of 3 engineers working fully remote and asynchronously.<p>Excellent communication skills are required.<p>john.omar@distractify.com

by: dustingetz
text: We are looking for a haskell&#x2F;lisp genius (with experience using effect fusion) to sharpen our layered monadic evaluator. This is core to the next version of <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hyperfiddle.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hyperfiddle.net&#x2F;</a>, a tool for making declarative crud apps backed by Clojure. Remote, international OK, I&#x27;m in Eastern Time. dustin@hyperfiddle.net

by: amit-bansil
text: Remote | Boston | Javascript Programmer<p>I&#x27;m a web developer looking for some help with a CRUD project.<p>Nice to Have: Typescript, Postgres, GraphQL, React<p>Need to be available for 3-5 hrs of meetings&#x2F;week some time inside 9-5 US ET.<p>Email amit@thinkcello.com<p>More about me: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;amitbansil&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.linkedin.com&#x2F;in&#x2F;amitbansil&#x2F;</a>

by: knocte
text: Node Effect | ONSITE(SEAsia) or REMOTE | 20h&#x2F;week<p>- C#&#x2F;.NET developer: F# is a plus.<p>- Mobile&#x2F;desktop developer: Xamarin and&#x2F;or GTK is a plus.<p>- WebAssembly developer: UNO&#x2F;Blazor experience is a plus.<p>- Blockchain&#x2F;smartcontracts developer: Lightning interest&#x2F;experience (even as a user) is a plus.<p>Please write me at andres at nodeffect dot com and I&#x27;ll give you more details. Thanks!

by: sneak
text: Remote ONLY<p>Need: Someone skilled in web and visual design.  Layouts, Typography, Photoshop, HTML5, CSS.<p>Nice to have: experience with SSGs like Jekyll and similar, light javascript.<p>You will learn, if you do not already know: Git.<p>Negative indicators: Desire to build React SPAs.<p>You may be overqualified if: You spend more time in an editor than in Photoshop.<p>Send portfolio and rates to: jp@eeqj.com

by: fovc
text: REMOTE<p>Looking for a freelancer who has experience building client-facing services with SMT solvers. Particularly in the area of program verification. If you&#x27;ve done SMT in a browser even better.<p>Email: hn@inc-query.com